TL;DR : How can I produce a É character in the tty login prompt ?
Long story : Ok so I was playing with the application "Unity Tweak Tool" to discover some nice features but at some point the whole ...

I usually backup between two Ubuntu machines, but I now want to use rsync to backup my Ubuntu server with a disk residing on a Mac. But I do not get it to work properly.
The first time all is well, ...

Started noticing some odd behavior when using Gnome Terminal, Tilda terminal emulator also a couple days ago. Basically whenever I launch a fresh instance of either application (new tabs also) I get ...

Trying to deploy a Qt application on Ubuntu
Directions from Qt site show how to allow the library dependencies to be loaded, by changing the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable:
#!/bin/sh
appname=`basename $0 ...

How to produce diacritical (accented) characters under Ubuntu 14.04? I used to be able to do it under 12.04 by installing the relevant language support, however under Ubuntu 14.04 the only available ...

I was using Right Alt for special characters to my great satisfaction.
Now after upgrading to 14.04 not only it doesn't work but the key is stubbornly launching the HUD.
Worse: The keyboard settings ...

As the title says; Nano via the terminal, how to write special characters?
I am having trouble trying to debug a UTF8 problem and would like to create a special character in a file via the terminal.
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I have some strange bugs possibly related to character encoding or problems with filenames, here are some clues:
Clue #1: LibreOffice Writer 4.1 won't open files with Icelandic characters in the file ...

one problem. When the shimmer desktop theme in gmusicbrowser in Xubuntu 13.10, i have weird characters like the letter A acting as separators between artist, year and album. Any idea what could i do ...

I updated my system yesterday afternoon using the recommended updates from Update Manager. After it completed, I shutdown my system and went home for the day.
I come in this morning and I am getting ...

Can I create a new keyboard layout or add Unicode characters to my current keyboard layout in Ubuntu? I have found something called KMFL (Keyboard Mapping for Linux), however, I could not install it ...

I want to type the Indian Rupee Symbol. So I went to System Settings >> Keyboard Layout and clicked on the Options button. Under the Adding Currency signs to keys sections, I checked the Rupee on 4 ...

I am running Lubuntu on my laptop and would like to write French accents with a US keyboard. I find the compose key solution ([Alt]+[accent] at the same time, followed by a [letter]) not that handy...
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Sometimes, being rushed, it is possible to type some characters wrong in a command-line. If the command is long, the mistake correction may be cumbersome (using arrow keys). So the problem is: how can ...

I am trying to add a Windows printer via SAMBA from the New Printer dialog in Kubuntu 12.04. The smb:// field doesn't allow me to put special character or blank spaces, except for the underscore (see ...

Does anyone know how I can insert the Interpunct character (also known as midline decimal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpunct ) in Ubuntu. The combination mentioned in the Wikipedia article does ...

Does anyone know how to write a macro for a special character?
I know LibreOffice currently doesn't have a way to set a special character to a keyboard shortcut. However, I want to work around this ...

i am using NANO as my everyday text editor. I'm using an old laptop, so NANO it's fast, lightweight, and saves me battery. The only problem is the fact i can't use Special Characters and accents.
For ...

Here is my problem, I would really appreciate some help!
Hungarian accented characters (áíúöüóúű) stopped working.
I use ubuntu through VNC, and I was trying to install wine. The install process from ...

I recently downloaded and installed LÖVE (note the special character). If I type L in the dash, it is nowhere to be found. EVEN if I just launched LÖVE from the launcher, it does not show up in the ...